Events
1422: At only 9 months old, Henry VI succeeds to the throne of England.
1888: Jack the Ripper kills Mary Ann Nichols, his first victim.
1959: President Dwight Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan appear in a live television debate.
1980: The Gdansk Agreement ends a series of strikes in Poland, later leading to the formation of the Solidarity labor movement.
1989: Moldova adopts National Language Day.
1994: The Irish Republican Army declares a complete ceasefire after 25 years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
1997: Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Fayed die in a car accident in Paris.
2006: Edvard Munch’s painting, The Scream, is recovered after its theft almost exactly two years earlier.
2010: President Barack Obama ends the U.S. combat mission in Iraq after seven years.

Lists like this are necessarily subjective and limited. Do you think I’ve left an important August 31 event out? Then please let me know in the forum!